Reunión tumultuosa

Irresistible, hilarious, side-splitting, unrestrained, wildly comical: these are the adjectives that are deservedly and routinely applied to Tom Sharpe's books, and to Riotous Assembly, his first novel. In this novel, set in South Africa, Miss Hazelstone, of Jacaranda Park Manor, murders her Zulu cook in a sensational crime of passion, and the gallant local police officers soon appear: a Kommandant whose secret yearning to be an English gentleman leads to a memorable heart transplant; a Lieutenant tireless in his hunt for the communist; a Konstabel who advocates shooting without hesitation... In the course of the astounding events that unfold, we witness truly unheard-of perversions, culminating, as is typical of Tom Sharpe, in an apotheosis.